World Religion Word Scramble 4 -- A learning tool
Word scrambles can be fruitful gamification tools for building vocabulary.
Challenge: Even if you do not have the book, can you unscramble these words and make sure they are matched up with the right clues?
| 1. natcor ________________ | The person who leads the worship and sings the music in Jewish religious services |
| 2. uuiccnsfo ________________ | A Chinese itinerant teacher who lived about 500 B.C. and whose teaching concentrated on the realization of an ideal society through the proper execution of duties |
| 3. miosda ________________ | A philosophical, religious movement that is concerned with balancing or harmonizing the fundamental energies in the universe |
| 4. ighn-sfa ________________ | Philosophically inclined Chinese who believed they had found the secret to immortality |
| 5. ahknukha ________________ | A Jewish festival commemorating the purification of the temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after it had been defiled by the sacrifice of a pig to Zeus |
| 6. ihsadism ________________ | An Orthodox Jewish movement whose followers keep all of the Talmudic requirements |
| 7. atgetsyvHruinlsGohF ________________ | A period when the Chinese believe that dissatisfied spirits leave their underworld abode and roam the earth, sometimes causing havoc |
| 8. heoskr ________________ | Conformance to Jewish dietary and food preparation laws |
| 9. oenmhra ________________ | A 7-branched candelabra used in Judaism |
| 10. avprseso ________________ | The seven to eight-day celebration commemorating God's protection for His people in the events leading up to the Exodus |
| 11. rpuim ________________ | A celebration of the events recorded in the book of Esther when Jewish extermination was averted |
| 12. aydgnayiinn ________________ | Two opposing yet complementary forces that, optimally, are in perfect balance with each other |
-- Howard Culbertson,
"This is a great exercise to review key concepts in the assigned reading." -- Jamie M., Nazarene Bible College student